New Video: Holly Herndon “Chorus”

Holly Herndon has an extraordinary new 12″ out today on RVNG Intl., and it’s title track “Chorus” has received some seriously eye bending visuals from the amazing Japanese artist Akihiko Taniguchi. In talking about the track, Herndon explains, “So much of “Chorus” was constructed by spying on my own online habits”, which meant that she sampled various elements of her daily online experience using YouTube, Skype, and other audio snippets as source material. Herndon also reports a long standing affinity for Taniguchi’s work, who she had been “spying on online for a long time”, and the artist has contributed the perfect visual analogue for “Chorus”. Also fascinated by our online experiences and identities, Taniguchi uses the desk and workspace as an intimate window into our lives, and like Herndon, he subjects these personal images to some seriously heavy duty processing and synthesis. To construct the video, Taniguchi says,

“I asked several friends to photograph their desktop environments and then rendered these images with custom 3D software, shooting video by moving throughout this virtual space. This video is a collection of records of life, of friends, and their Internet environments.”

While you’re at it, don’t miss the Bandcamp embed of Holly Herndon’s new 12″ after the video, as it includes a most enigmatic track, “Solo Voice“. Done in one take, Herndon’s vocals are put thru some custom filtering which reduces her voice into strange staccato bits, that ultimately ping wildly between the stereo channels.

Holly Herndon Chorus 12″: